Minimum Wage: Labour Demands Five Months Arrears

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) side of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) has called on the Federal Government to pay five months arrears of the new minimum wage when the payment begins this month.
They want the payment dated back to April 18 when President Muhammadu Buhari signed the new minimum wage bill into law.
The union vowed to take action against any organisation that paid below the new wage structure.
Implementation of the new wage structure has been stalled over a disagreement between the labour unions and government representatives on salary adjustments.
Specifically, the problem centred on the issue of relativity and consequential adjustments of salaries for various categories of workers.
On May 14, the Federal Government inaugurated the relativity and consequential adjustment committee, which set up a technical subcommittee to work out a template for the adjustment of salaries of public service employees in line with the minimum wage law.
The government and organised labour finally came to an agreement on the new minimum wage last Friday, 182 days after the President had signed the bill.